Bradley County commissioners Monday voted down a change that some residents were concerned would make the panel’s internal committee meetings less transparent.
In May, commissioners passed a resolution regarding the County Commission’s internal committees that included language spelling out the rules for how committees are formed and where committee meetings were to be held. The resolution defines “Rule 8” regarding internal committees.
On the agenda Monday was a proposed resolution changing language under Rule 8 that Dan Rawls, a county resident and former county commissioner, called “kind of unbelievable,” contending it dimmed the transparency the May resolution had provided.
The language that passed in May said, “All meetings of internal committees shall occur in the Bradley County Commission Room of the Bradley County Courthouse, unless the chairperson of said committee articulates the necessity of a meeting to occur at another designated location.